When I worked o nay undergraduate capstone project in order to get approval to do testing on human subjects we needed to fill out IRB application and present the project and test cases involving the use of human subjects to NJIT’s IRB and it was up to them whether or not to allow someone to go further with human testing. Given the risks of human testing an IRB is very risk-averse and obtaining approval to use human subjects to test an undergraduate research project they require a lot of evidence that a device will offer no potential harm to any subjects